Russia Checks Western Lies on Syria

This follows the move earlier this month when Russia placed its support full square behind the Assad government. Moscow has delivered military aid to Damascus in line with legal bilateral agreements.

Russian President Vladimir Putin explained that the Syrian government is the primary offensive force against the terrorist networks tearing Syria apart.

Therefore, if Washington and its Western allies claim to be fighting against terrorism in Syria, then they should have no objection to Russia's support for the government in Damascus. Check!

Again, the Russian move deftly exposes another Western deception.

Since Moscow beefed up its military support for Syria, Washington, London and Paris have been reeling from their own contradictions. The West says it is alarmed that Moscow is "shoring up the Assad regime."

But if these powers were genuinely in the business of "degrading and defeating" the so-called Islamic State and other jihadist terror groups, then why should they be alarmed by Russia supporting the principal force -- the Syrian government -- in the battle against the terrorists?

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pointed out that the West's logic is "upside-down." He has also commented that the West's "anti-terror" coalition bombing Syria and Iraq does not appear to be genuine in its ostensible aims. After a year of US-led air strikes on Syria and Iraq, the terror groups seem to be stronger than ever.

Clearly, the West's "anti-terror" strategy is ineffective, suggesting that the real aim of the West is to further weaken the Syrian state.

Scrabbling around to find some cover for its naked upside-down logic, Washington, London and Paris are now saying that they fear that Russia's military intervention in Syria "may lead to an escalation of the conflict" or to a clash with the US-led coalition.

John Kerry and his Western counterparts have even resorted to this oxymoron. Kerry said the "root cause" of the refugee crisis assailing Europe is the "conflict in Syria" and that is, in his view, further "rationale" for the removal of President Assad. How convoluted can you get?

The four-year-old conflict in Syria is so obviously the driver for millions of Syrian refugees. But the "root cause" that Kerry so deceptively misplaces is the criminal covert war of regime change that Washington has launched on that country, along with the collusion of Britain, France, Turkey and the Gulf Arab dictatorships of Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

That US-led regime-change war has involved unleashing thousands of terrorist mercenaries on Syria. It's a well-worn American strategy played time and again in different parts of world down through the decades. Ukraine and Yemen are two other current case studies of Washington's covert state-sponsored terrorism. Fiendishly, Western propaganda in the form of "Western news journalism" helps to mask what should be transparent criminality committed by Washington and its so-called allies and clients.

Deciphering the West's lies and deceptions is not always an easy task.

But thanks to Russia's logical policy, the West's lies in Syria are at last being nailed. We might even say -- "Checkmated!"